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PricewaterhouseCoopers: Security Budgets Remain Intact
A new set of survey results released this week by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found that as organizations have held steady or increased IT security budgets in the face of other IT cuts, they’ve been under more pressure than ever to offer greater value through security spend. Unveiled by PwC on Wednesday, the 2009 Global State of…
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RSA Leverages TrendMicro Technology in New Deal
RSA announced this week that it will tap TrendMicro technology to add a higher level of real-time threat intelligence to the RSA FraudAction Service, which is operated by RSA’s ’round-the-clock Anti-Fraud Command Center. The new partnership links FraudAction with TrendMicro Smart Protection Network to leverage threat intelligence gathered by TrendMicro and bolster RSA’s ability to…
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Security: A Reason for Windows 7 Adoption
October’s Patch Tuesday—or as some in security circles have come to call “Terrible Tuesday”—contained fixes for more than 34 vulnerabilities, including one for Windows 7. Issuing a patch for an operating system that was still more than a week away from general availability would have been a black eye in the days of Windows 98,…
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Symantec Study Finds Fake Security Software Rampant
(Reuters) – Tens of millions of U.S. computers are loaded with scam security software that their owners may have paid for but which only makes the machines more vulnerable, according to a new Symantec report on cybercrime. Cyberthieves are increasingly planting fake security alerts that pop up when computer users access a legitimate website. The…
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TrendMicro Adds Net New Security Layer to Address Zero-Day Threats
Trend Micro on Tuesday unveiled a services solution that it says will enable the channel to offer customers better visibility into dynamic malware threat vectors through a net new technology layer. Dubbed Trend Micro Threat Management Services (TMS), the new offering provides early warning, containment and remediation of data-stealing malware infiltrations already within the network.…
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Sophos’ Top 5 Reasons Free DLP is Good for Partners
Sophos is now bundling a free data loss protection product with the sale of its network-based antivirus software in an effort to expose more end users to its technology and capture share from larger rivals Symantec and McAfee. >> READ the Channel Insider report on Sophos’ DLP iniatitive This is the second time in a…